Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-02
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has ordered her to go to the South to recu-
| perate.
| THE Duke of Orleans, born at Twickenham
on Feb. 6, 1863, is BOW IS years old. the age at
which French sovereigns dispense with o
regency. He. has, therefore, attained his
! political majority.
REV. ROBERT HALL, when asked how many
| sermons preacher could prepare IN week
replied: "lf he is man of pre-eminent
ABILITY. one; If he is man OF ordinary aDllity,
| Two; II be is an ass, SIX"
For years New Workers have reen con-
! tributing to the support OF a little colored
church" supposed to exist in their midst. An
| investigation showed the church was a myth
| and the suppos tlouS pastor, who has been
| living on their bounty. has been "sent to the
island" for three months.
Col, MoCAULL is quoted as saying that the
young men of America who have money
enough to go abroad for musical education
-"and no musical education can be obtained
here"-have sufficient means when they come
back to live without worrying themselves
about composition. 1--WE haven't even an
American ibrettst yet"
MRS. PHELPS, the wife of the American
Minister, has given one of the most-talked-of
dinners in Lowndes square. Sir Trevor Law
renee being one OF the guests. She has a
hrSt-rate chef. and her table was a triumph
of artistic decoratiOn-an Inauguration OF
vivid crimson and the palest mauve and
green orchid.
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO hospital was start
Ell in London on the plan of discarding the
use of alcohol except where every other
means failed. Since the beginning only four
cases out of lens Of thousands nave been treat
ed with alcohol, and the percentage of re-
coveries has been much larger than in any
other hospital.
MRS. B. L. ROGERS, of Kenosha, Wis. owns
an intelligent collie dog. Two weeks ago
Miss Rogers lost valuable gold watch, and
although large rewards were offered for its
recovery. and many KenOsha people joined In
the search no trace OF 1t could be found. ON
Sunday morning the dog walked into the
hou-e with the missing article In his mouth.
TIE Eskimos say that a very long time ago
there was a great rain, which flooded the
earth and destroyed all men except a few,
who constructed large boat out of a num-
Der of small ones and used it as q means of
escape. After while the poor creatures be-
gan to be cold, so their chief threw his spears
and ornaments into the waters. TINS was
sufficient to pacify them and they subsidized.
A JOKER told an old colored man of Raleigh
that the North Carolina Legislature was
about to pass alawmaklng 1t right for a an to
sell his wife. The old man doubted, and asked
another citizen. who, to see the effect, intI-
mated that the report was true. The old
darby looked down a moment. scratched his
head, and then said: "Well, sir, eff dat gifts to
be er law, my Wife-she 20 on de block, sho."
Col. A. l.. CONGER. who has recently re-
turned from Europe, tells story of his ex-
perIences at Rome in seeking for inform alton
rs to the relative condition of the people in
Italy and America, He found hack driver
who had spent a number OF years in this
country, could talk English and was an IN
telligent man. In the course of the conversa-
ton the ILalian said: "Slr, the civilization of
the world began in Italy" pray, where
ana 1t endP" asked the Colonel. when the ma
replied with thoughtful soberness: II think
1t ended IN America"
SPEAKING of the colloquial powers of Sena-
tor Joe Blackburn, of Kentucky" says First
Assistant Postm asGer General Stevenson, ~
| am reminded of story. When Joe and
| were young fellows we were in school to-
| gether, and 1t happened that two of our
| friends had falling out and concluded to
| settle it according to the code, with Joe and
M self as seconds. Somehow, Joe had the
| reputation of being posted on such affair,
and when all arrangements had been COM
| pleted, and we were ON the ground, we gave
him full power of direction. We tossed for
choice of position, and nv side won. The sun
was just rising, and placed my man with his
back to 1t. Joe saw the disadvantage of hiS
principal. and began to do n little talking for
come other arrangement. He went into the
history of dueling, citing cases and giving
statistics; he explained the courtesy of the
code; he argued every point of honor, and so
on. with sucn force and continuance that
when we finally got ready to resume warlike
operations the sun had gone down, and it was
SO dark that our men cou du't see each other
at ten PAGES. OF course Joe was as much sur
pris Ell as any of us, but It put an end to the
duel, and our principals never renewed it,"
ALEXANDER DUMAS, says a correspondent,
has tendency to stand in corners, with
arms folded, and nursing his chin between
the thumb and the index of his right hand,
while he relates some aneedote of himself or
of his father in a rough h. hoarse voice. and
with certain brusqueness OF language
Angler Is nervous and incIsive talker iJy-
GUS gaulois at times, and gifted with a COM
municative laugh. Renan Is ''urbane, unctu-
Gus. prlestly and unaffirmative." AlphOnse
Daudet retains the awKwardness of Bohem-
ian antecedents. Sardou "will talk your head
on; single word is sufficient to start him."
Edmond de GOncourt talks ''well and eie-
gantly, and with great originality of Ian
guage." Victor Hugo used to he re puted an
excellent talker. Barley d'AureVifly " no
is me of the lions of the Bar0nne de Poilly's
salon, Is O master In the art Of causerie both
as narrator and in repartee. About ''of
course. Is capital talker." lola is a '.boor
in all respects; he never appears in salon,
and when by GRANGE he visits one of his col
leagues In naturalism he invariably talks
about the circulation OF his books and the
scurvy thieyery of those American publishers
who translate his novels and never paw him
cent.
aSNChOINp W OWn dCCOuut, Lawrence
Jerome has made a contract with the Eduita-
BILE Life Assurance Society to pay him and his
wife 5000 year as long as they live, and in
exchange he made over to them all his money
and property, amounting 10 a few tens of
thousands of dollars He therefore knows
just what his income is and gives himself no
concern about it. He has been the great
practical joker of Ne YORK, setting up the
most wllful and extraordinary Jobs on his op-
ponents, but never berg able to take any
practical JOKE upon himse + Some time ago
he went with the brewer Yuengling to Vir-
gnia, where fuengling had purchased the
these men would go down TO shoot anu have
off behlnd and let the dogs ont to scare tho
game away. He smugged bsh-b0rns in his
baggage, and compelled the negroes and
others to JON him in the dead of night, blow
ing these horns in the ears of the sleeping
guests. Finally he announced himself at q
small negro station, which was packed with
darkies. waiting for a tram, to have been the
man who set all the slaves free, aud this he
made the staple of "A sermon, that he had
, never received any credit for it-alI expressed
with q sobriety and vehemence which nut the
name of braham Lincoln considerably in The
bach ground. He finally pre- SEM ed to the IL
ferent negroes there, who were going OF on
he train, the fox hounds aud other DOS be-
longing TO his assoc ates, go that every negro
departed with a dog
AMONG the games enacted at some OF tho
Saxon peasant weddings there lie one which
deserves to be mentioned affording as it does